Ropsley

Ropsley was the birthplace of Richard Foxe, the Tudor bishop who funded the Grammar School at Grantham and Corpus Christi College at Oxford.{{cite web|title=Bishop Richard Foxe|url=http://www.stpetersropsley.org/Bishop_Foxe.htm|work=Church web site|accessdate=8 September 2013}} {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Fox, Richard | volume= 10 |last1= Pollard |first1= Albert Frederick |author1-link= Albert Pollard | pages = 766–767 |short=1}}

A 300-year-old ring dam, {{convert|0.5|mi|km|1}} south-east from the village and identified by a group of trees, was once used as a sheep wash; the blue brickwork of the sheep wash can still be seen.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} There are paths from the village, past the ring dam, to Little Humby.

There several disused quarries nearby, two of which are situated within the village itself.

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There is now one village public house: The Green Man, The Ropsley Fox closed down in 2012. Previous pubs included The Peacock. The village bakery was on the high street for 300 years, one of the oldest in the country, closing in 1979. Now a private house, many people can remember visiting the bakery as children to get the family bread and cakes.

Ropsley village hall has grounds which incorporate a basketball court, a football pitch and a cricket pitch. There is a 12-hole golf course on the outskirts of the village. The village running club is Ropsley Road Runners.

Ropsley war memorial is in the centre of the village and dedicated to First and Second World War servicemen. Each year on Remembrance Day a parade, led by a piper, travels from St Peter's Church to the memorial for two minutes silence.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}

A number of walks in the Ropsley area run through traditional English woodland, including Ropsley Rise Woods.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}

Previously there were several small farms in the Ropsley area. Today very little of the land is used for livestock; it is almost all arable farmland, growing crops including barley and oil seed rape.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}

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The church of St Peter dates back to Norman times. Some parts of the church appear to be of Anglo-Saxon origin.{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=H M|title=Anglo-Saxon architecture : volume 3|year=1978|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=1110}} The building dates back to at least 1380. In the 17th century part of the church was demolished and re built by the vicar of the time, Reverend Francis Furlong, because dry rot was discovered in the walls.{{cite PastScape|mnumber=325721|mname=Church of St.Peter|accessdate=7 January 2014}} Two war memorials are inside St Peter's Church: one commemorates War dead, the second, a stained glass window, is a memorial to Sgt Pilot of the Royal Air Force, William Philip Dales from Little Humby.

The ecclesiastical parish is part of The North Beltisloe Group of parishes[http://www.northbeltisloeparishes.co.uk/ropsley.htm "St. Peter's Church, Ropsley"], Northbeltisloeparishes.co.uk. Retrieved 14 May 2012 in the Deanery of Beltisloe in the Diocese of Lincoln.[http://www.lincoln.anglican.org/search_parishes.php?14023070 "Ropsley P C C"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716073223/http://www.lincoln.anglican.org/search_parishes.php?14023070 |date=16 July 2011 }}, Diocese of Lincoln. Retrieved 14 May 1012 From 2006 to 2011 the incumbent was Rev Richard Ireson [http://www.boothby.org.uk/PCPages/NBGC%20and%20Lay%20Ministers%20report%20to%20AGMs%202011.pdf "North Beltisloe Group Council Report for PCC AGMs."]; Boothby.org.uk. PDF download required. Retrieved 14 May 2012 and from 2012 Rev Mike Doyle.

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The first school was built here in 1717, endowed by James Thompson.{{Cite book |title=The Lincolnshire Village Book |publisher=Countryside Books |year=1990 |isbn=1 85306 077 1 |edition=reprint 1994 |location=newbury |pages=130}} It was rebuilt about 1805 after a fire.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} A Public Elementary School was built here in 1874, and enlarged in 1894 with an increased pupil intake of 400.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}

Today the school teaches almost 100 pupils. It has its own wildlife area, playground, climbing frame and football pitch, and a bell tower and hall.{{cite web|url=http://www.ropsley.lincs.sch.uk/|title=Ropsley CofE School web site}} The school holds a Summer Fete and a Christmas Fayre biannually. Each year at harvest time the school holds a harvest festival; children walk from the school to the church with their offerings. The food collected is then raffled-off.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}

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